Sunday, 24 October 2021 (YJC)_ the chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, said there was “no question” that it was a premeditated attack.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, said on Sunday there was “no question” that it was a premeditated attack.
CBS’ “Face the Nation” played a portion of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s podcasts, where he could be heard saying, “All hell is gonna break loose tomorrow. It's going to be moving. It's going to be quick. And all I can say is strap in. The War Room, a posse, you have made this happen and tomorrow it's game day.”
“How premeditated was this attack?” host Margaret Brennan asked Thompson after the clip.
“Well there's no question. Clearly the direction of the committee is to look at that premeditation to make sure that we identified, but the worst kept secret in America is that Donald Trump invited individuals to come to Washington on January 6,” the House Democrat said.
“Steve Bannon was part of the conversation and the promotion of January 6, the very podcast we just listened to talks about it. Steve Bannon was in the war room, and he was in the Willard Hotel, doing a lot of things, so that's why we subpoenaed him, that's why we felt it was important for the committee and staff to depose him. But as you saw, he refused to participate,” Thompson added.
The remarks from the chairman comes as the House voted last week to hold Bannon in contempt after he refused to comply with giving a deposition, effectively snubbing their subpoena. Though the vote fell along mostly partisan lines, nine House Republicans voted to hold Bannon in contempt, including two members who had not voted to impeach the president.
Former President Trump filed a lawsuit claiming he had executive privilege over the committee’s intention to gather National Archives records from when Trump was in office and in the events after the Jan. 6 riot. Bannon has argued that he is waiting for that case to be resolved in the courts before addressing the subpoena.
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